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chefnut to be planted in beds or ^ rows, about five 
yards diftant from each other j nor are there any 
fcattering trees to introduce them, which is what muft 
be expeded near woods of natural growth. 
I fhall now proceed to anfwer Dr. Ducarefs other 
arguments, with regard to the Spanifli chefnut’s be- 
ing an indigenous tree in this country. 
He firft mentions a grant DecimiS Cajianeariim in 
Dend, which he fuppofes to mean the foreft of 
Dean. 
Upon looking into Spelman s Index Villaris, I find 
no lels than two-and-twenty towns and villages which 
bear the name of Dean. Why, therefore, it fhould 
mean the Foreft, rather than any of thefe places, is 
not fo obvious ; efpecially when, confidering the vaft 
trad of ground included within thisforeft, the grant 
muff have been of fo very extenfive a nature, 
Suppofing it to be the tithe Cajlanearim in any par- 
ticular paridi, it will amount to no more than a grant 
of the tithe of walnuts would do, which we know to 
be a tree originally of foreign growth. 
The fruit of a fmall number either of walnuts or 
chefnuts is very valuable, if near a confiderable town. 
I have been informed, that a grove, not exceeding an 
acre, of the latter, at Beachworth CafUe in Surrey, hath 
fometimes produced upwards of ten pounds, at the 
London market, when the feafon happened to be fa- 
vourable, and the nuts ripened kindly. 
I fhould fuppofe that this grove of chefnuts, from 
their fize, may be about two hundred years growth ; 
and they already begin to decay very much at the 
tops, being what the woodwards term flag-headed. 
If 
